Meet the Team

Cincinnati Children's chaplains, and the rest of the staff in the Department of Pastoral Care, are here to support and attend to the diverse spiritual needs, practices and expressions of all patients and their families.

Daniel H. Grossoehme, MDiv, BCC, is an ordained Episcopal priest who completed his clinical pastoral residency at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation Hospital with an emphasis in pediatrics and critical care in 1992-1993. He became the first director of Chaplaincy Services at Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron, where he served from 1993 to 2003, when he joined Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center's College Hill Campus as staff chaplain.

Grossoehme DH, Ragsdale J, Wooldridge JL, Cotton S, Seid M. We can handle this: Parents’ use of religion in the first year following their child’s diagnosis with cystic fibrosis. Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy. 2010 16(3): 95-108.